Merger Reersed

Henry M. Hoenigswald henryh at ling.upenn.edu
Sat Dec 5 16:41:54 UTC 1998


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Yes, a non-problem is precisely what the whole thing is.  By the way, the
speakers' intuition is not a Harrisian pair test though it may be the
inchoate form of one.  That, however, doesn't help.   Though the
difficulties in  administering a pair test are  notorious, that is a
blemish only if you believe that there 'is' a 'same' / 'different'
dichotomy up in the heavens, a fact of nature waiting to be detected.   If
the pair test is inconclusive, that's  what the language is like.  No use
blaming the intuition or the test.



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